Jurisdictional news
Decisions that tighten or ease rules for forming a company, obtaining residency or citizenship, or restricting individual liberties: short digests from pre-selected sources.
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Mixed Individual liberties Türkiye: LGBT Rights Crackdown Strikes at Rule of Law
Click to expand of LGBT activists and raids on LGBT rights associations in cities across Türkiye. More than 100 demonstrators were also arrested and detained for more than 24 hours. © 2026 Güliz Sağlam (Istanbul, September 18, 2026) – The Turkish government’s major crackdown on groups and activists defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people threatens the rule of law an….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationalityIndividual liberties The 14 Countries With an Annual Wealth Tax and Who They Reach
Tax residence is a separate test from immigration status, and only Argentina and Hungary write a permit into it. For every other country on this list, your wealth tax bill turns on days present and on where your assets are.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Individual liberties China: Ensure Sophia Huang Xueqin’s Release and Guarantee Her Freedom from Arbitrary Restrictions
zevans@freedom… minent #MeToo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin approaches the end of her unjust five-year prison sentence, we, the undersigned civil society organizations, call on the Chinese authorities to ensure her immediate release and guarantee that, once released, she can carry out her journalism and human rights work without surveillance, harassment, retaliation or other restrictions . Sophia Huang Xueqin is wi….
Source · Freedom House
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Easing Individual liberties Iran: Ongoing Unlawful Execution Campaign Against Protesters
Click to expand January 31, 2026. © 2026 Daniel Perron/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Within a span of only five months, between March 18 and the end of August 2026, Iran’s authorities announced the executions of 29 people in connection with recent protests.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Individual liberties Indonesian Military Court Reduces Acid Attack Sentences
Click to expand ary 5, 2026. © 2026 Project Multatuli/Adrian Mulya A military court in Jakarta reduced the prison sentences and overturned the dishonorable discharge of two of the four military personnel convicted for the March 2026 acid attack against human rights activist Andrie Yunus. The appellate decision, dated August 20, reduced the sentences of 2nd Sgt.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Individual liberties Philippine Police Arrest 11 Indigenous Rights Protesters
Click to expand d the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Quezon City, Philippines, on July 13, 2026. © 2026 Charles Edmon Perez/JNA Press/Sipa USA via AP Photo Philippine police on August 28 dispersed a barricade that Indigenous communities had erected in Kasibu town, Nueva Vizcaya province, and arrested 11 Indigenous protesters.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Individual liberties Hungary’s 1% Wealth Tax Is Written and Goes to Parliament in October
The drafting is finished and the bill reaches parliament in October, at 1% a year on wealth above one billion forint. Hungary's last wealth tax was struck down over the same problem the new one has yet to solve, which is how to value a stake in a private company.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Individual liberties Tunisia: Civil Society Under Siege
Click to expand ivil Work to protest racism in Tunis, April 11, 2026. The demonstration, which includes human rights organizations, civil society groups, and activists, addresses concerns about what participants describe as a rise in racist rhetoric, as well as efforts to criminalize solidarity and civil, political, and trade union activities.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationalityIndividual liberties Minnesota Truth Council Convenes for First Public Meeting
Click to expand ration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency during their immigration crackdown, Operation Metro Surge, in the state, January 30, 2026. © 2026 Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters The first public meeting of the Minnesota Truth Council, a transitional justice mechanism established to create a historical record of the federal government’s abusive immigration enforcement operations in the state ear….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Individual liberties Tibet Flood Victims Have a Right to be Heard
© 2026 Gongga Laisong/China News Service/VCG via AP Photo As people in Nepal and across the Chinese border in Tibet reel from horrific mudslides, the Chinese government has turned to censorship and control. On Weibo, which follows Beijing’s censorship demands, the Chinese social media platform prominently pinned a memorial hashtag (#向吉隆泥石流灾害遇难人员默哀) at the top of trending topics, alongside eight other disaster-rela….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Individual liberties China: Decade of Impunity for Crimes Against Uyghurs
Click to expand uly 13, 2023. © 2023 Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – The Chinese government’s decade-long severe repression against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, amounting to crimes against humanity, deserves a stronger response from the international community, Human Rights Watch said today. Ten years after the Chinese Communist Party sharply escalated abuses against Uyghurs….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Individual liberties Governments Should Protect Environmental Defenders from Violence and Repression
Click to expand of the Royal Courts of Justice, London, January 29, 2025. © 2025 Sipa via AP Images As space for environmental advocacy rapidly shrinks, Indigenous peoples, climate activists, and land defenders increasingly face harassment, criminalization, and repression for protecting lands, ecosystems, and communities from environmental harm. The use of violence, intimidation, and threats to silence envir….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Individual liberties US Military Claims Legal Compliance Amid Unlawful Killings
Click to expand ter in Saada, Yemen, May 11, 2025. © 2025 Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images The US Department of Defense submitted its 2025 civilian casualty report to Congress on August 10, touting “a strong record of compliance with the law of war” and acknowledging the “moral imperative” of mitigating and responding to civilian harm. The language reflects the Trump administration’s selective….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Individual liberties Australia: Chinese Government Menaces Uyghur Diaspora
© 2022 Flavio Brancaleone/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Chinese government is interrogating Uyghur Australians visiting Xinjiang, pressing them to collect information on Uyghurs in Australia, including Uyghur language schools.The Chinese government exploits the vulnerability of separated Uyghur families as an opportunity for surveillance and strict monitoring of the Uyghur community in Australia, which has a chilling e….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Individual liberties South Africa Names Gender Apartheid. Now It Should Act.
Click to expand dens in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, November 21, 2025. © 2025 Misper Apawu/AP Photo At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration on August 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke, among other things, about the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Individual liberties Colombia’s New President Vows to Eliminate Wealth Tax, Announces Structural Tax Reform
Months after courts undid the world's highest wealth tax rate, Colombia's new president wants to abolish the levy altogether.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Individual liberties Constitutional Flaws of California’s Proposed Wealth Tax
The California Billionaire Tax Act (Proposition 40), which imposes a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires’ net worth, is vulnerable to numerous constitutional challenges, any of which could invalidate the tax in whole or in part.
Source · Tax Foundation
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Easing Individual liberties Indigenous Farmer in Indonesia Acquitted in Coal Mining Case
Click to expand mining company because they caused potholes, traffic snarls, and serious accidents. On April 16, 2026, the Tanah Grogot district court acquitted him after he had spent 10 months in police detention. © 2026 Yulia Adiningsih Indonesia’s Supreme Court on August 5 upheld the acquittal of Misran Toni, an Indigenous Dayak farmer known as Imis, who was participating in a coal mining protest and….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationalityIndividual liberties Technology Expands ICE’s Capacity for Abuse
Click to expand h is being used as an ICE detention center, on May 27, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Santiago/Getty Images Representatives Delia Ramirez and Hank Johnnson, both members of US Congress, held a shadow hearing on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of technology on July 15.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Individual liberties New UK Prime Minister Should End the Assault on Protest Rights
© 2026 James Willoughby/SOPA Images via Reuters Palestine Action, the direct-action protest group, was granted permission on July 30 to appeal its terrorist designation at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. The government controversially issued this designation in 2025, and although the group successfully appealed the designation in the High Court, that ruling was reversed by the Court of Appeal in June. Sinc….
Source · Human Rights Watch